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[InDaRed2]

Got tired of hauling my pressure washer and 150’ of hose all over my acreage...built a little rig for it...

Don't forget a drain hole for oil changes. Looks good.

 

[4 FN 27]

Fabricating a "Wand" to remove the Garnet from the Water Jet...a few days off and a guy has to get busy!!!

I'll do a write up GDS Sunkworks thread tomorrow...

 

[Slednut]

My SIL built this welding table. The casters lock the wheels and the swivel by stepping on the red lever, the metal lever unlocks them. It's 3x8'.

 

[lowpro64]

New welding cart. Copied the design from 57moto on Youtube.
Zim

 

[Rusty32]

Built a new bench for our fire station from old fire hydrant tops.

 

[larry4406]

Built a new bench for our fire station from old fire hydrant tops.

Well done!

 

[smalltown]

Perfect Rusty !

 

[PhantomEB]

So damned cool!

 

[Muggzy]

Built a new bench for our fire station from old fire hydrant tops.

Very cool. Would love to get a hold of some of those hydrant tops

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[AngryBeaver]

I had picked up a QA plate a while back and planned to use it on my kubota BX, but after adding up the weigh of the forks, QA plate, fork carriage and QA stuff for the tractor, I decided against it. It was going to kill too much of my lifting capacity... Since I picked up an old new holland skid steer that I am engine swapping, I figured why not get the fork carriage out of the way, or most of it.

So, I had the forks, had some 4" channel, the QA plate....

I had originally intended on building the fork carriage out of the 4" channel, then welding the QA plate on the back of that. After some 3am late night thinking, I decided to make it simple. Had some 3/8" galvanized Angle leftover from a job that were 62" long. The 4" channel rails I planned to use were only 48 or 50" wide. more width is always better right?, plus modifying the QA plate for the angle would allow the forks to sit closer to the pins...

I welded the QA plate to the top of the angle iron for the bottom. Then made some cuts to slide the angle into the sides of the QA plate for the top fork guide

Just need to add some end plates, and a few center supports, then notch the angle in the center for removing the forks, as well as adding notches up top for the fork pin stops. I may or may not add a top section to keep stuff from falling back towards the skid steer. that is to be determined. I'll get a weight on it when I get the end plates welded up and the support pieces in place.

 

[Bears Fan]

Slednut

Nice welding bench! and some prudy welds too

Rusty

That is one cool bench

 

[86turbodsl]

damn that is a nice welding table. Bravo!

 

[sweetk30]

not 100% pro rated but get the job done .

frame repair kit for a jeep frame .

 

[Old Man Roger]

not 100% pro rated but get the job done .

frame repair kit for a jeep frame .

Probably wont ever be an issue, but for future reference, try not to make the plate run perfectly up and down. If you can make it so your weld will run at least at a 45 degree angle, it will be less likely to crack right at your weld, at least in high stress areas. Plug welding and fish plate is always a good idea too.

 

[AngryBeaver]

Probably wont ever be an issue, but for future reference, try not to make the plate run perfectly up and down. If you can make it so your weld will run at least at a 45 degree angle, it will be less likely to crack right at your weld, at least in high stress areas. Plug welding and fish plate is always a good idea too.

maybe you should call up all the fab companies that make Replacement parts for street legal race cars, off road rock crawlers, etc.. there's about 500 companies that make weld in subframes for many applications that exceed 2K hp and are welded in straight up and down without any issues are failures... its the guy pulling the wire or running the rod that determines how well the penetration is without crystalizing the metal to create a weak point. 45 degree angle doesn't matter.

YMMV

 

[sweetk30]

Probably wont ever be an issue, but for future reference, try not to make the plate run perfectly up and down. If you can make it so your weld will run at least at a 45 degree angle, it will be less likely to crack right at your weld, at least in high stress areas. Plug welding and fish plate is always a good idea too.

pre made repair kit for this problem . i am just the guy sticking it on .

 

[pb57]

Rusty that bench is awesome!

 

[Old Man Roger]

maybe you should call up all the fab companies that make Replacement parts for street legal race cars, off road rock crawlers, etc.. there's about 500 companies that make weld in subframes for many applications that exceed 2K hp and are welded in straight up and down without any issues are failures... its the guy pulling the wire or running the rod that determines how well the penetration is without crystalizing the metal to create a weak point. 45 degree angle doesn't matter.

YMMV

pre made repair kit for this problem . i am just the guy sticking it on .

Easy guys I did mention that it probably wouldn't be an issue, just saying it's still stronger if you don't weld straight up and down.

 

[Old Man Roger]

I know it's not always practical, or even possible, but there's a reason you see factory fishplates on heavy equipment.

 

[zmotorsports]

not 100% pro rated but get the job done .

frame repair kit for a jeep frame .

Nice job on the frame repair. I've had to do several of those over the years and they can be tricky to get good shiny metal to weld the repair kits to.

 

[d4fords]

My welding project...

Transformed a $50 Harbor Freight hand truck into a welding cart. Had limited storage space so this will fit into my mechanical room in the garage and out of the way until needed.

 

[jhn9840]

Nice use of the HF hand truck. Never saw that one before.

jhn9840
John

 

[StormcrowAz]

Re: My welding project...

Transformed a $50 Harbor Freight hand truck into a welding cart. Had limited storage space so this will fit into my mechanical room in the garage and out of the way until needed.

Nice work on the weld dolly. I really like mine and its portability for work outside the garage/shop.

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[thejimmy]

Re: My welding project...

Transformed a $50 Harbor Freight hand truck into a welding cart. Had limited storage space so this will fit into my mechanical room in the garage and out of the way until needed.

Nice work on the weld dolly. I really like mine and its portability for work outside the garage/shop.

Both of these conversation looks good, well done

 

[d4fords]

Re: My welding project...

Nice. Really like the "table" on top

 

[Dodge]

Easy guys I did mention that it probably wouldn't be an issue, just saying it's still stronger if you don't weld straight up and down.

I have heard that before from a very competent welder.

 

[joe49]

Welding straight across a frame is bad practice. Will it fail, maybe. Will it last, yes it can. Doing something wrong and getting away with it doesn't make it the proper way.

 

[banjopete]

A simple job compared to most but today's welding fun for me was making up a rolling support for my lowrider2 cnc table. Always fun to mix up the materials.

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[AngryBeaver]

Some of my welding from yesterday.... this is the drive coupler for the skid steer I'm converting from a blown up gas 2cylinder to a kubota diesel 3 cyl.

I Don't have any machining pics, but I milled the flanged down over at buddies. then took the flange and the yoke over to a buddys that is a pipe welder. I don't know anyone close with a lathe, so we used his roll out wheel to get the two flanges are square and concentric as possible. A rollout wheel is nothing more than a lathe chuck with adjustments, then you have a large outer ring to spin it by hand. I had tacked it up already before I took it over there, and to his amazement, we didn't change it. I guess the two diameters being exactly the same was easy to do it once the flange was flat....

welded one pass with his lincoln SA200, and brought it back to the shop to weld two more passes on it. I plug welded the mounting holes and will eventually drill and tap them before this thing runs.

Now I can build the front engine mounts!

 

[sqznby]

How you doin
Looks like you're doin well, nice work.

 

[sqznby]

Love the hand truck idea, form and functionality all in a manageable package. Two thumbs up.

 

[bullnerd]

Beaver! That was a bad *** cut with the sawzall!

Look how straight that is!

I would be buying a new pulley/adapter/thingy if I tried that.

 

[lilscorpion]

Re: My welding project...

Transformed a $50 Harbor Freight hand truck into a welding cart. Had limited storage space so this will fit into my mechanical room in the garage and out of the way until needed.

That’s slick. Never crossed my mind to make a welding cart out of a dolly. May adapt the concept to work with my plasma. Thanks for sharing.

 

[bmxdad]

Re: My welding project...

Do you have a mote surrounding the property?

That's awesome if you do

 

[sberry]

Cart,,, I might incorporate the front wheels in to some of these hand cart designs.

 

[sweepcity]

Finishing the frame of my welding table. The base is done. Just need to add my “extras” some of the pics just have mock ups. So don’t abuse me too badly . This is table number 2. As my welding and fabrication skills improve, so does my table.

 

[bggrnchvy]

I built some wall brackets for the shop out of a couple of sticks of C3x4.1.

 

[aka Larry]

Been working on my cooler kart project. Check out the build thread here.

 

[thejimmy]

I built some wall brackets for the shop out of a couple of sticks of C3x4.1.

Heavy duty is an understatement, what will they hold? Nice fab work there

 

[ifirefight]

Made this. The second one I made, and last. Side tables for the sofa, totally functional. WAY over engineered, only needs to hold my beer..



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